Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Studies School of Law Collection Development & Management Policy

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1 1 Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Studies School of Law Collection Development & Management Policy April 2013 Contents 1 Policy context, application and scope School of Law, Programmes and Research Centres Strategic Issues: UL Law Library Resources Legal Resources Method and Scope of Collection Development Policy Classification & Collection Levels Law Collection Assessment Book Budget Selection of Resources Specialist Collections Library Support for resource use Appendices Guidelines for a Collection Development Policy using the Conspectus model (2001) Conspectus Collection Depth Indicator drfinitions _Toc

2 2 1. Policy context, application and scope This policy identifies the criteria underpinning the provision of information to support the mission, work and research of the faculty of the School of Law in the University of Limerick; supporting teaching and learning through the curriculum; supporting undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers as students and as scholars and supporting the legal research centres and occasionally legal practitioners. The scope of the library collection of legal resources reflects the School of Law s teaching and research activities. The School and the AHSS librarian will participate, consult and advise on the acquisition and management of those resources. This policy supports strategic decision-making by the School of Law and the Glucksman Library in recommending legal material or services for purchase, providing a framework for collection management issues including reviewing existing stock and services, stock location, off campus storage or withdrawal of obsolete materials or media, migration to e-versions, and digitisation. It will support investment in new legal subjects, and new resources. Crucially, it will allow us to identify the balance between serial and book investment, paper and electronic resources and the input of electronic information resources into legal education. All material, managed, purchased or otherwise taken into stock enriches the scholarly collections identified by the School as important for its core areas of teaching and research. This policy supports the School of Law s mission statement by affirming a responsive library and information service prepared to value practical, multi-disciplinary and innovative legal education through curriculum support. The development of the library collections and service gives priority to high quality research publications in areas of key research strengths, extensive subject choice in legal subjects, and a supportive, problem solving and skills transfer information service for faculty, postgraduates and undergraduates. This policy recognises that the Glucksman Library has a presence as a regional law library, stocking Irish official publications, European documentation and collections of law reports and books. 1.2 Collection Development & Management Policy at university level This policy is subordinate to and informed by Glucksman Library s overall Collection Development & Management policy which documents the policy for donations, withdrawals, preservation and digitisation and Special Collections. 1.3 Collection Development & Management Policy review There will be a regular cycle of reviewing and reporting on the collections, and the policy itself will be reviewed and updated by the School of Law faculty and AHSS librarian. 1.4 Collection Development & Management at faculty level Faculty of the law school will work with the AHSS librarian on stock selection and recommendations to achieve a balanced collection in support of this mission.

3 3 2. School of Law, Programmes and Research Centres The School of Law is one of the departments of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in the University of Limerick. It offers innovative legal education and research opportunities to the whole university community through subject specific legal support modules, interdisciplinary programmes and full law programmes for day and evening students at school leaver, mature student and graduate entry. The emphasis on working experience and practical lawyering skills ensures that the library service keeps a strong practical focus on the information and skills needed in real life law. 2.1 School of Law Programmes Undergraduate Law Bachelor of Arts in Law and Accounting Bachelor of Law Law Plus LLB Evening degree The School of Law provides significant interdisciplinary support to many University programmes. Graduate Law LLM in International and Commercial Law LLM/MA Human Rights and Criminal Justice LLM (General) LLB Graduate entry The School of Law faculty supervise Masters and PhD degrees by research and an innovative Structured PhD in Criminal Justice. 2.2 Research Centres Centre for Criminal Justice ICEL: International Commercial and Economic Law Group 2.3 Faculty Research Interests Substantive and theoretical criminal law National and international criminal justice and procedure policing, sentencing Public, constitutional and administrative law; human rights, discrimination and equality, Emotions, psychology and law; sports law, animal law Comparative law, legal hybridity, legal history, jurisprudence Property, equity and trusts Company, commercial, contract and competition law, Corporate finance and insurance law Torts, negligence, civil obligations compensation, consumer protection Innovative teaching of law. Faculty participate in local, national and international legal initiatives and research, academically and with practitioners.

4 4 3. Strategic Issues: UL Law Library Resources Legal information resources comprise primary and secondary sources and reference materials; primary includes legislation and official publications, case law, and historical legal texts. Secondary sources include legal commentary, theoretical texts and analysis in academic monographs and journals and academic course texts and case books for student use. Law includes a substantial and significant literature in sources and commentary supporting practitioners and a wide-ranging literature supporting non-legal professionals - e.g. Law for Physiotherapists - and popular publications on legal and legal-political-social matters Many academic law libraries do not stock practitioner materials however UL values these resources, providing support to students preparing for work placement and supporting and exploring aspects of Irish Law. Irish legal publishing is a tiny sector and practitioner materials might be the only resources available in a specific subject. Official publications, primary source materials and journals are increasingly available electronically but retrospective coverage is patchy with authority issues in the free internet. Glucksman Law Library manages materials in both paper and electronic formats because paper copies are still a requirement for most legal work, though this is slowly changing. We continue to collect print resources through subscriptions to journals and law reports which are central to the curriculum and where we need authoritative, reliable permanent access, but we evaluate this every year. Glucksman Library licenses academic electronic access wherever possible, negotiates for multiple simultaneous uses on and off campus and participates in consortium purchasing through IReL to maintain competitive pricing for legal information. We recognise that the Irish and international legal publishing industry prices towards a practitioner market with short print runs, very expensive books, pay-more for electronic access models, and restrictive access. Irish Legal deposit resources provide significant benefit. All Irish official publications including annual reports of bodies such as the Labour Court, Courts Service, Irish Law reports, the major Irish law journals and all major Irish law publishers, Clarus, Roundhall, Oak Tree Press, Irish Academic Press, Four Courts Press, Gill and Macmillan, UCD Press, Cork University Press, Bloomsbury Press (Ireland), and Blackhall supply books and reference materials. Electronic materials are not covered by legal deposit. We offer ULIR, the UL institutional repository to faculty and research centres to store and metricate their own publications through international depository networks. Glucksman Law Library acts informally as a regional law library. Practitioners and Judges use the extensive facilities provided by The Bar Library, The Law Society and the Judges Library - we ve provided occasional and urgent paper access to all. Librarians in the special libraries have provided us with crucial legal information and advice.

5 5 3.3 Legal Resources Legal resources comprise law books; historical and theoretical texts; text and case books; practitioner manuals and institutional or official reports, and documents from government and non-government agencies across many jurisdictions. These are mostly paper based but increasingly are available electronically. Most official reports and institutional documentation are available electronically, frequently for free. Conversely many Irish legal publications are extraordinarily expensive. Case law and court reports, institutionally issued or commercially published are available on paper, online databases and through institutional web sites. Increasingly electronic access is becoming the norm with retrospective digitisation projects. There are now significant, complex born-digital court systems on the internet (ICTY and ICTR). Legal commentaries through journal publications are available on paper and electronically though journal costs are substantial and rising. Some legal commentary will be available through institutional repositories associated with universities and institutions but the publishers are restrictive and territorial so this route may not be as common in law as other disciplines Law Reports and Online Databases. We subscribe to the major report series for Ireland, UK, Commonwealth, European and EU on paper. There is some electronic duplication with the online services funded though IReL: Justis; Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw, UK, International and Irish. We rely on electronic access for American and International jurisdictions through the major online services and extensive free official internet services Law Journals and Online Databases. The Glucksman Library subscribes to a small, select collection of international journals and yearbooks closely matching curriculum strengths. We buy print and electronic access where pricing allows. Lexis and Westlaw supply full text electronic access and indexing information to law journals and American university law reviews. Oxford, Cambridge, Taylor and Francis and Sage journals online provide full text access to contemporary materials. Access to historical runs of international law journals is supplied through Heinonline and Jstor. Irish law journals are supplied on paper through legal deposit and more recently, online through Westlaw.ie. (Area of weakness - European published journals and contemporary titles not covered by the historical collections.) Law Reference and Online Databases. The library buys specialist encyclopaedias as they are published, and legal dictionaries on paper. Lexis and Westlaw provide access to the major journal indexing services. Indexing to Irish legal materials is freely provided through Legalperiodicals.org. Lexis and Westlaw provide indexing services to international journals.

6 Law Books. We ve approximately 15,000 lending law books and continue to invest at approximately1000 volumes per year in all formats. We buy single copies or multiple electronic access except for high demand titles on the curriculum where we buy multiple copies. Currently, we prefer to use shorter loan periods to purchasing multiple copies of dateable stock. Books are loaned in combinations of 3 hour, 1 day, 3 day, 7 day and 2 week loan with an additional tiny desk reserve collection for high demand and expensive materials. Faculty advise on loan periods. We update textbooks and casebooks in a 3 year cycle and relegate early editions to store to maintain a contemporary collection in the library Irish Official Publications and European Documentation Centre Irish official publications are sourced through Legal Deposit. Increasingly, they are moving to electronic access. We link the library catalogue records to the electronic version to provide indexing, classification and context. The European documentation centre has been moved to store due to space constraints, however paper materials can be retrieved quickly. The European Court Reports are now located in the law library. There are online texts to most of the EU materials through the EU bookshop website and Europa on the web. We link to all of these on the library webpage Legal information on the internet. Legal Information Institutes - we provide links on the library website to the major, academic, systematic and free legal reporting systems, on a par with the fee based services. We link to Irish official and institutional sites Open Sources and Law. We provide access to open sourced academic repositories such as Rian.ie and Driver.eu. We are wary of providing links to crowd-sourced materials in law because of authority issues. We recommend authoritative, institutional sites as information sources on the internet rather than downstream reporters International Jurisdictions. We are gradually building a collection of undergraduate level texts on the major jurisdictions, mostly in English.

7 7 4. Method and Scope of Collection Development Policy 4.1 Classification & Collection Levels The IFLA, International Federation Library Associations and Institutions collection levels model is applied in assessing the collection and all book requests. Levels 1 and 2 are considered to be insufficient to meet the needs of a third level curriculum. Levels 3, 4, and 5 need access to significant legal primary sources to meet research training and problem based learning within the curriculum and to facilitate the performance of research at postgraduate level. Level 5 indicates significant holdings built up over time or areas of special focus. This Collection development plan defines the UL law library collection in 2013 and gives a sense of the target collection. The departmental priorities in their annual book purchasing plan will identify the intermediate steps to achieve targets. IFLA Collection Levels Collection Level Code Out of Scope 0 Minimal Level 1 Basic Information Level 2 Study or Instructional Support Level 3 Research Level 4 Comprehensive Level 5 Classification The primary Dewey classification range for Law is (Law) and 364 (Criminology). Canon Law is classified at Law Collection Assessment Subject Dewey Decimal Class Collection level (IFLA) Now Next Target Canon Law Jurisprudence Learning law, legal research skills and writing Legal reasoning, morality, justice Legal cultures and comparative law Legal systems and conflicts of laws Legal education Legal history

8 8 International law and law of international institutions United Nations European Union State creation, sovereignty Human rights Peacekeeping International Criminal tribunals, war crimes, criminal practice International competition law/antitrust Public, constitutional and administrative law Irish constitutional Law Comparative constitutional law Conflict of Laws Administrative laws Civil liberties equality, sexuality diversity etc Local government Tax, trade, industrial law, military, offenses against the state International financial law Antitrust, competition Construction law Taxes and Customs Consumer law, competition, construction International economic relations, anti-dumping Information technology law, media law

9 9 Labour, Social, Education Employment law Social Welfare law Discrimination, Children s Law, child sexual abuse Medical nursing mental health and food Occupational health and safety, environmental Police law Housing law Education law Sports law Criminal law Courts practice Property crime, money laundering, white collar crime, hate crimes Juvenile crime Criminal responsibility International criminal litigation, extradition Evidence, testimony, forensics Sentencing and punishment Private law, equity Family Contract, liability, torts Negligence, defamation, sexual violence, anti-social behaviour Real property, land, conveyancing, planning Equity, trusts, succession Company law ?? 4 5 Commercial law, sale of goods, corporate insolvency Intellectual property, banking, investment insurance Civil Procedure and the courts Judicial review and judges Civil procedure, practice courts Law and politics Litigation Evidence Mediation and arbitration Law making, statutes, regulation, cases drafting,

10 10 interpretation Laws of specific jurisdictions 349 Ireland UK, Scottish International common law United States European civil law jurisdictions Middle East Africa (especially South Africa) Asia(especially India, Hong Kong, Singapore) Russia Reproductive issues and rights Criminology Criminological research, skills and methodology Historical processes, gangs, organised crime, transnational crime Political criminology Police corruption Genocide, rape, war criminology Fraud Delinquency Juvenile, gender Crime prevention Restorative justice Rehabilitation, post prison Justice Penal and related institutions Legal writing

11 11 5. Book Budget The distribution of the annual University book budget is agreed by the LIRD committee based substantially on the university FTE model. 5.1 Distribution within the AHSS faculty The AHSS Dean working in consultation with the Dean s Group and faculty librarian allocates funds based substantially on the university FTE model. 5.2 Distribution within the Law School The School of Law s faculty library coordinator negotiates subject investment in law with their colleagues taking account of the updating cycle of law texts, major changes in law, curriculum development and the needs for multiple copies in course support. They coordinate requests from the faculty and send the approvals to the AHSS librarian for purchase through the acquisitions department. The AHSS librarian advises on costs, publication processes, paper and electronic versions, library transactions and use, the balance between programmes, and the acquisition of the substantial resources supplied through Irish Legal deposit materials in law. The AHSS librarian also coordinates the acquisition of resources for print disabled students. The book fund can be used to purchase any materials not requiring recurrent subscriptions. This can include finite back runs of journals or law reports, though the AHSS librarian will advise on the sustainability of fragmented resources. 5.3 Purchasing The Acquisitions department of the library negotiates contracts with suppliers in accordance with procurement guidelines and best international practice. They supply book stock, journals and electronic services to the University library Procedure for purchase Recommendations for purchase should contain publication details (isbns, edition numbers where possible) and meet any guidelines from the faculty coordinator. The recommendations can be in any format but electronic allows for efficiencies. Prices are given as estimates only; the library will get accurate prices from their suppliers. Module codes and the potential student numbers will help with curriculum support materials. Information for new programmes can be harvested from faculty and departmental board documentation and provision for new stock must be made when budgeting for new programmes. Faculty recommendations go to the faculty library coordinator, from there to the AHSS librarian and then to ordering from library approved suppliers.

12 12 6. Selection of Resources The Law Library resources are evaluated regularly in terms of scholarly merit and relevance to their individual academic subject field and practice merit. Rare, hard to get, out of print or extremely expensive materials will be shelved in Special Collections to protect and provide access. 6.1 Language Priority is given to publications in the Irish and English languages. Works published in other languages are selectively acquired. 6.2 Library Classification Glucksman library uses Dewey Decimal Classification. 6.3 Library and Law School Liaison The Faculty Librarian liaises with faculty members when making collection development decisions in line with the collection development policy. Together they determine priorities, and decide which material should be acquired, costs, paper or electronic delivery, the number of copies to be purchased. The acquisitions librarian decides on suppliers and service delivery issues. The Faculty Librarian needs timely information about new programmes, new modules, module modifications and new research students and initiatives to ensure that the library service can meet those needs. New teaching methodologies and academic expectations can impact on the use of library resources and services. Faculty need to know transactions, use and damage to stock, mismatched loan periods and demand or stock conflicts between different modules. All need to know about innovations in publishing and distribution, metrics and information literacy issues. 6.4 Module and Programme support The Library actively reviews its resources to ensure that modules and programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level are adequately supported Reading list items Faculty book selection work will take account of curriculum needs. The faculty librarian reviews the reading lists prior to the start of each academic term, in sufficient time to allow acquisitions to purchase the book stock. Faculty will send current detailed reading lists or the librarian will access the list through SULIS. Faculty nominate the appropriate loan periods (Normal loan, Week loan, or Short Loan Collection or intensive care), depending on class size and numbers of copies and the expense of the book given the substantial cost of most law books. Loan periods will be changed and materials recalled as required, to facilitate maximum use of resources by users. School of law faculty already support a regular updating

13 13 of stock through new editions. The faculty librarian gives priority to the most recent stock in short loans and by relegating earlier materials to the store Multiple copies for curriculum support The School of Law in consultation with the AHSS Librarian will decide on the number of multiple copies to be purchased for each module depending on the class size and recognising the expense and life of law books. A variety of loan periods, including short loans will be used to maximise use of stock. It is not a general policy to stock multiple copies. Law books are notoriously expensive. The library will use controlled or restrictive lending to ensure equitable access and the safe management of the stock. Faculty will advise on locating materials to reserve loan section at the issue desk (popularly called intensive care ). In the interests of a diverse law library collection, single copies will have appropriate loan periods to meet needs. The library will actively recall material on demand. EBook services allowing simultaneous access are preferred Research material The Law School library coordinator will accept purchase recommendations for research materials which meet the research priorities, plans and the postgraduate research needs of the law school. Law school and library will seek to develop depth and expertise in the research collections. Research level collections will inform undergraduate project work Reference materials, specialist encyclopaedia, dictionaries, updating services Reference materials for law are shelved in the law section, alongside the law reports and paper journals. Some resources are available electronically through database services but much still comes out as paper books or even loose-leaf updating services. Many loose-leaf services are supplied under Irish legal deposit and while the format is labour intensive, it meets needs in Irish law. Specialist academic encyclopaedias, annual reviews, yearbooks and handbooks are increasingly important. We buy these as they become available but there are significant costs in updating and maintaining currency Electronic resources: databases Legal databases are substantially funded through IReL, the Irish University Libraries Consortium purchase. IReL purchase covers the international publishers, but there is a lack of flexibility in providing access to databases and journals produced by smaller publishers in an increasingly specialised and diverse information market ULIR UL library operates the University of Limerick Institutional Repository to allow faculty to self-archive their publications. Licensing is based on Creative Commons 3 licenses. The database is managed and serviced by library staff. Content and indexing is harvested by RIAN the Irish National Repository and from thence to Driver, the European research repository and also through google scholar to facilitate exposure and citation of faculty work.

14 Sulis UL offers SULIS, a VLE, to support teaching and distribution of materials. Sulis can interact with library resources. The library recommends providing links to electronic database resources, including the Institutional Repository so that downloads and student use can be metricated. 6.5 Format and Media Print Print continues to be the preferred format for most legal publishers however the library will purchase electronic formats when available to allow for off campus access, accessible texts Electronic formats Books: Electronic format is the preferred format for high demand textbooks where we can offer simultaneous and remote access. Ebooks can also help research level materials and promote efficient work through speedy supply, simultaneous and remote access. Standalone software published on CDs and DVDs can date rapidly and is not preferred. Audio and Video: Streaming multimedia through the internet is preferred over DVDs. Standalone products can be acquired and licensed selectively but the library recognises obsolescence issues. Podcasts, ITunes U and other streaming sources are not managed by the Library though we do teach how to access and manage them as part of overall information literacy and management. Free Internet Resources Egovernment initiatives especially for national and international institutions and scholarly publication initiatives such as the Legal Information Initiatives are rapidly changing the access to legal information. Born-digital organisations such as the ICTY and ICTR present fresh challenges for legal information literacy and education. We provide links to freely available internet resources on a par with fee-based information. 6.6 Procedure for acquisition of Journal subscriptions, law reports and databases The Library Information Resources Development committee agree book fund allocations. Funds for journals and subscriptions are managed centrally. Law reports and databases are also subscription services. Subscription to journals and law reports are regularly reviewed. Where new titles are required law school faculty agree cancellations to the same value. In rare cases, departmental funds can be allocated to the subscription for a set subscription period. Databases are funded substantially through IReL, the national consortium.

15 National initiatives: consortium purchasing and national collection development and resource sharing. Glucksman library actively supports the IReL (Irish Research e-library) Consortium purchasing of databases and electronic resources. IReL funded resources are reviewed regularly and decisions are made based on a cost per use/value for money model, alongside consultations with faculties and researchers. The School of Law has benefited from IReL funded electronic journals and databases. 6.8 Donations The UL Glucksman Library donations policy is part of the main Collection Development Policy Collection donations will be assessed by the AHSS Librarian, with faculty advice to match defined collection objective and strengths. Donations can be significant to fill gaps, support the law school research and the law school curriculum. Rare or valuable items will be housed in Special Collections. 6.9 Legal Deposit The Glucksman Law Library is an overall beneficiary of Legal deposit. The AHSS librarian will select and preserve Irish legal deposit materials to meet curriculum, faculty research needs and those of a regional law library. Legal deposit materials will be managed and used to the same standards as purchased materials Special or Additional Funding Special funding from donors, friends, or departmental research earnings will be managed and accounted by the library to the Law School independently of the University s recurrent book budget. In the absence of additional funding, new courses, new faculty or new research centres will be supported from within the standard Departmental materials allocation Stock Management and Review Print resources will be reviewed frequently through agreed consultation processes to relegate to store out of date texts and journals and to maintain a contemporary and relevant collection on the main shelves. Single copies of early editions of textbooks will be retained for future scholars.

16 16 7. Specialist Collections 7.1 Irish Official Publications Irish Official publications are supplied on legal deposit. This includes legislation, statutory instruments, Dáil debates, reports and publications of specialist agencies. These are increasingly available electronically. The AHSS librarian monitors standards and availability to ensure continuity of service. Older Irish official publications can be difficult to acquire. The Irish official publications are located in Store 1 on the garden level 7.2 European Documentation Centre Glucksman library was designated a European documentation Centre in We maintain the collections but prefer electronic access for future materials and teach students how to use the European databases. Space constraints mean that the EDC is in off campus storage and can be retrieved. The AHSS librarian provides support and information service and teaches retrieval skills and participates at a European level on the development of standards for the fully electronic EDC. 7.3 Unreported Judgments The existing Irish unreported judgments collection will be retained, though the Courts Service website Courts.ie is now the primary location for unreported judgments. 7.4 Dissertations and theses Research PhDs and Masters on paper are held by the Glucksman library and catalogued in the library catalogue. In accordance with the University policy, electronic versions of doctoral and research masters theses will be accepted by the library with access provided through the institutional repository. The Law School will retain any electronic versions of theses which are embargoed until it expires and then supply the library with an electronic version. 7.5 Special Collections The Special collections policy is available and covers any law related historical, rare or expensive items. Decisions to locate materials in special collections will be collective and collaborative. 7.6 Digitisation and Datasets

17 17 8. Library Support for resource use Knowledge management is a fundamental asset in legal practice. The Library is committed to supporting wise use of all information resources and its efficient management and retrieval by students and faculty. Together with faculty, the AHSS librarian teaches information literacy for legal materials and seeks to promote information fluency to all levels in law with all resources, especially legal databases and internet publication. Teaching can be embedded in the curriculum or run independently through workshops and problem solving approaches. Appendices Appendix 1 Guidelines for a Collection Development Policy using the Conspectus Model (2001) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Section on Acquisition and Collection Development F. Collection depth indicators The collection depth indicators, or levels, are numerical values used to describe a library s collecting activity and goals. Three aspects of collection management are considered: current: collection level, acquisition commitment, and collection goal Conspectus Collection Depth Indicator definitions 0 Out of Scope. Library does not intentionally collect materials in any format for this subject. 1 Minimal Information Level Collections that support minimal inquiries about this subject and include: - A very limited collection of general materials, including monographs and reference works. - Periodicals directly dealing with this topic and in-depth electronic information resources are not collected. The collection should be frequently and systematically reviewed for currency of information. Superseded editions and titles containing outdated information should be withdrawn. Classic or standard retrospective materials may be retained. 2 Basic Information Level Collections that serve to introduce and define a subject, to indicate the varieties of information available elsewhere, and to support the needs of general library users through the first two years of college instruction include: - A limited collection of monographs and reference works. - A limited collection of representative general periodicals. - Defined access1 to a limited collection of owned or remotely-accessed electronic - bibliographic tools, texts, data sets, journals, etc.

18 18 The collection should be frequently and systematically reviewed for currency of information. Superseded editions and titles containing outdated information should be withdrawn. Classic or standard retrospective materials may be retained. 3 Study or Instructional Support Level Collections that provide information about a subject in a systematic way, but at a level of less than research intensity, and support the needs of general library users through college and beginning graduate instruction includes: - An extensive collection of general monographs and reference works and selected - specialized monographs and reference works. - An extensive collection of general periodicals and a representative collection of specialized - periodicals. - Limited collections of appropriate foreign language materials, e.g. foreign language - learning materials for non-native speakers or foreign language materials about a topic such as German history in German. - Extensive collections of the works of well-known authors and selections from the works of lesser-known authors. Defined access to an extensive collection of owned or remotely-accessed electronic resources, including bibliographic tools, texts, data sets, journals, etc. The collection should be systematically reviewed for currency of information and for assurance that essential and important information is retained, including significant numbers of classic retrospective materials. 4 Research Level A collection that contains the major published source materials required for doctoral study and independent research includes: Very extensive collection of general and specialized monographs and reference works. Very extensive collection of general and specialized periodicals. Extensive collections of appropriate international language materials. Extensive collections of the works of well-known authors as well as lesser-known authors. Defined access to a very extensive collection of owned or remotely accessed electronic resources, including bibliographic tools, texts, data sets, journals, etc. Older material that is retained and systematically preserved to serve the needs of historical research 5 Comprehensive Level A collection in a specifically defined field of knowledge that strives to be exhaustive, as far as is reasonably possible (i.e., a "special collection"), in all applicable languages includes: Exhaustive collections of published materials. Very extensive manuscript collections. Very extensive collections in all other pertinent formats. A comprehensive level collection may serve as a national or international resource IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development Standing Committee. (2001). Guidelines for a Collection Development Policy using the Conspectus Model. Available: Last accessed 5 April 2013.

19 19 Appendix 2 Work plan for this Collection Development Policy Roughly classify all module titles using basic Dewey decimal classification as excel sheet Roughly classify faculty research interests, postgraduates and research centres. Create excel spreadsheets in Dewey order of book stock by quantity and journals and integrate with modules and research sheets to create a baseline document. Annotate with reference materials, databases and journals Apply the Conspectus levels to the baseline sheet. Discuss this with Jennifer Schweppe who then inserted the targets in the light of the Law School s development plan. Evaluate international Law School collection development policies and other UL policies.